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  • The Loneliest Generation Turns to AI for Intimacy

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    Harvard’s $10 Million Viewpoint Diversity Fix Won’t Work

    Without rebuilding the hiring pipeline, endowed professorships will change little.
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    April 20, 2026

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  • Catholic Converts and the Limits of the Trend

    Catholic Converts and the Limits of the Trend

    The rise in Catholic conversions reflects real intellectual appeal, but it remains a small phenomenon within a broader secularizing culture that calls for pluralistic religious education.
    David Randall
    April 16, 2026

    A certain number of college students seem to be converting from Protestantism to Catholicism. Some whispers note that this is relatively frequent at Hillsdale College; others have noticed it as…


  • What Can Hungary Learn from American Civics Education?

    What Can Hungary Learn from American Civics Education?

    If Hungary wants young people to care about democracy, it needs to teach it better—and the U.S. provides useful, concrete models for how to do that.
    Marton Sulyok
    April 16, 2026

    As Hungary reshapes its national youth strategy for the coming decade, with renewed attention to civics education, policymakers in the departments responsible for youth affairs and education—as well as the…


  • No More Middle Ground for Universities

    No More Middle Ground for Universities

    The National Association of Scholars warns that continued resistance could invite far more aggressive intervention.
    David Randall
    April 14, 2026

    Since January 2025, the Trump administration has engaged in an ambitious campaign to reform higher education. This campaign elicited some case resolution agreements with a handful of universities. Yet America’s…


  • Florida Gets Sociology Wrong

    Florida Gets Sociology Wrong

    Dropping it from the core curriculum marginalizes conservative sociologists and weakens the field.
    Anne Hendershott
    April 13, 2026

    Florida’s Board of Governors’ decision to remove the Introduction to Sociology course from the state university core is being sold as a blow against “woke indoctrination,” but the move reveals a misunderstanding…


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Artificial Intelligence →

  • What ChatGPT Is Doing to Student Writing
    April 7, 2026

    What ChatGPT Is Doing to Student Writing

    Today’s students can write a perfect sentence that says absolutely nothing.
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    April 2, 2026

    Melania Trump Presents AI-Powered Educators at White House Summit

    The vision of robot educators points less to innovation than to the erosion of the human foundations of learning.
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    March 31, 2026

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    March 25, 2026

    Why Not Use AI to Cross the Language Barrier in Academic Publishing?

    Groundbreaking research may be going unpublished because of language barriers. AI can fix that, if we let it.

Campus Culture →

  • Catholic Converts and the Limits of the Trend
    April 16, 2026

    Catholic Converts and the Limits of the Trend

    The rise in Catholic conversions reflects real intellectual appeal, but it remains a small phenomenon within a broader secularizing culture that calls for pluralistic religious education.
  • Why Are So Many Protestant Students Converting to Catholicism?
    April 9, 2026

    Why Are So Many Protestant Students Converting to Catholicism?

    The pursuit of truth has a great deal to do with it.
  • Universities Put the ‘Men’ in Women’s History Month
    March 13, 2026

    Universities Put the ‘Men’ in Women’s History Month

    Events include transgender ‘gender equity’ speakers, intersectionality seminars, and sex-toy lessons.
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    March 2, 2026

    Small Liberal Arts Colleges Are Not Winning

    Elite liberal-arts colleges are no refuge from conformity, cost, or decline.

China →

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    April 7, 2026

    America’s Universities Have Chosen Foreign Interests Over Their Own Country

    The National Association of Scholars’s new report lays out a concrete policy roadmap to restore higher education to the national interest.
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    April 1, 2026

    Out With the Snake Pits, In With the Strategists

    Defunding area studies was right. But America needs to build something better.
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    December 9, 2025

    Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling

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    November 19, 2025

    Is America the Only Country That Won’t Take Campus Espionage Seriously?

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion →

  • Harvard’s $10 Million Viewpoint Diversity Fix Won’t Work
    April 20, 2026

    Harvard’s $10 Million Viewpoint Diversity Fix Won’t Work

    Without rebuilding the hiring pipeline, endowed professorships will change little.
  • California’s ACA 7 Is Affirmative Action With a New Name
    April 1, 2026

    California’s ACA 7 Is Affirmative Action With a New Name

    For Asian American students, it’s the latest chapter in the state’s long history of anti-Asian discrimination.
  • Trump Is Losing the Campus DEI Battle
    March 30, 2026

    Trump Is Losing the Campus DEI Battle

    Trump cannot win the fight against campus DEI culture alone.
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    March 26, 2026

    Japanese Universities Abandon Merit

    As the West walks back gender studies, Japan is opening the door.

Foreign Students →

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    January 28, 2026

    Universities Push Sanctuary Campus Agenda for Illegal Immigrants

    Illegal migrant enrollment helps universities meet demographic thresholds associated with preferential public funding.
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    December 17, 2025

    What the New International Enrollment Drop Really Shows

  • Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling
    December 9, 2025

    Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling

  • Trump’s Social Media Vetting Faces Free Speech Backlash. But Some Foreign Students Agree with Him.
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    Trump’s Social Media Vetting Faces Free Speech Backlash. But Some Foreign Students Agree with Him.

Sciences →

  • The Scientists Who Declared War on Half of America
    March 9, 2026

    The Scientists Who Declared War on Half of America

    Michael Mann and Peter Hotez call scientists into a partisan fight.
  • Reversing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding Won’t Stop the ‘Green’ Agenda in Your Town
    March 6, 2026

    Reversing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding Won’t Stop the ‘Green’ Agenda in Your Town

    Just ask Syracuse’s tree-planting mayor.
  • Trump Lowers the Thermostat State
    February 13, 2026

    Trump Lowers the Thermostat State

    Revoking the EPA’s greenhouse gas finding reopens debate over economic tradeoffs, industrial competitiveness, and academia’s embrace of climate orthodoxy.
  • 10,000 PhDs
    February 13, 2026

    10,000 PhDs

    A closer look at the alleged STEM ‘exodus’ reveals not a national emergency, but a government-engineered surplus decades in the making.

Workforce Pipeline →

  • A White-Collar Trade School?
    January 29, 2026

    A White-Collar Trade School?

    A view that college should prepare students for immediate employment is now mainstream across America.
  • Is College Dead—or Just Changing?
    January 28, 2026

    Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    An ed-tech executive argues higher education must adapt to AI as students and institutions prioritize job-market returns.
  • A Market Test
    January 21, 2026

    A Market Test

    Degrees that don’t deliver face a federal cutoff—just as the job market grows less forgiving.
  • That’s Not Good
    January 15, 2026

    That’s Not Good

    A weak job market awaits recent graduates—and young men are feeling the contraction most.

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